Wiki Basics

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First things first...
Create Account / Class wiki
  • If you already have an account, sign in and create a NEW wiki – yes, you can have more than one under your same account. You can set privacy options to block students from your Career Ladder wiki, should you want.

Request K-12 Upgrade
  • This free-for-educators upgrade allows your wiki to upgrade to private status

Button Basics
  • Page: allows for some quick adjustments
    • Details and Tags quickly shows the last edit (date, time, by whom) and shows what tags have been assigned (searching feature)
    • Backlink checks to see what pages are linked to the current page
    • Source shows the html code and can highlight the last edits, in code format
    • Quick way to delete, redirect or rename
    • Lock a specific page from editing through Permissions or Lock
  • Discussion
    • Comment on postings with actually editing them
  • History
    • Shows who edited when (date and time)
    • Shows what was added, and what was deleted
  • Notify me
    • Lets you follow changes made through RSS (iGoogle, for example)

Edit navigation
Allows you to customize the navigation menu as you want it

Manage Wiki
  • Content
    • Pages – allows you to rename, delete, lock, change permissions to pages. Also shows the number of edits and the date and time of the last edit
    • Files – Where your uploaded files live
    • Templates – create templates for class here to stream-line student work
    • Tags – for searching
    • Content manager – Never tried it…
  • People
    • Members – change member status (Members can edit regular page but not locked pages, Organizers can get to set up info and edit locked pages), can also delete folks from the wiki
    • Permissions – change a members’ permission
    • Invite People – send invites with email addresses or Wikispace user names
    • User Creator
      • ONLY works with the verified K-12 Educator accounts
      • Lets you create account for your students by uploading an Excel file of recognizable user names and passwords (what, no “froggielover812”?)
      • Avoids having the students input their email addresses (security issue)
      • Students do not then need their own wiki page to participate – they are linked to yours
  • Settings
    • Look and Feel – themes, colors, logo images
    • Subscription – where you do the upgrade
    • Domain name – don’t worry about this
    • Wiki Info – Change wiki name, edit copywrite info
    • Delete Wiki – When your REALLY done with it

Tools